The film takes us into the 90’ and takes in focus two characters, who are trying to find their place in society. It is also characterized by consistency during the story development, because they don’t deviate attention from the time they live on.

Merlot because of its playful and imaginative use of framing to offer a retelling the story of Little Red Riding Hood. Its distinguished style of animation is full of little surprises that engage and entertain the spectator.

Football Brothers for its observational style and ability to bring us close to the young boys’ ambitions to become footballers. Low key, humble and yet insightful, the film is remarkable for the naturalness of the boys’ presence who seem to forget that they are being filmed.

Subotika because of the inventive, humorous and surrealistic way in which it constructs a futuristic world inspired by 1960s postcards and images. Its intelligent combination of different techniques, including live shooting photography and animation, creates a very accomplished film that uses irony to offset the bleakness of its fictional world and leave the spectator with a good feeling.

We choose the film Lost Exile as the best film in the Albanian Short Film category for having all the elements of filmmaking in place, starting from the story to script, from creating a visual language that fits the scrip to good sound design and economic use of music. With these elements in place, the film achieves to make the audience feel the anxiety and suspense that the main characters are feeling.

There is short time for making decisions and the rest to regret. This life is all about love, passion, and fear... Fear of losing, fear of loving, fear of the unknown fear of responsibility. A film with a very sharp line of storytelling, a well set plot, brilliant acting and breathtaking scenes. Very good use of cinematography to bring us in this absurd situation of the characters and yet painful. A fresh and a unique point of view in the topic in itself yet transmitting huge and powerful emotional decisions that we have to deal ourselves. A reminder on how strong and fragile we human beings are.

There is a reason why a human life is worth more than military uniforms. Modern time man is not a ridiculed luggage or the cause of global dirty games. Urban Life and the confrontation with fears, civility and civic order in a mixed society at a French neighborhood, makes characters to find themselves in the trap of a global misunderstanding. And then comes a drunken citizen to eliminate this global intoxication with a gun improvised by his own hands, and with the idea to untune evil ticking in military uniform.

A readymade of media documents from the past that somehow combine to trigger reflections on the present. The dictation of the definition of ‘anarchy’ becomes a contradiction in terms. The viewer is prompted to search for the roots (ethnic, economic, generational) of disorder in the world.

In the film of the Piotr Chrzan, Media’s Jury estimated the treatment of a past subject throw an very interesting angle, where Jews are real victims in front of suspicious moral feeling of a people which have in its shoulder the bad reaction to this population. Media praises also the fact that struggle between mercy and rewards finds a very interesting solution.